Charles Dickens

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in Morning Chronicle. In November, Charles begins editing job at Bentley’s Magazine.
· 1837 - Edits a magazine called Master Humphrey’s Clock. First sketch of The Old Curiosity Shop published.
· 1842 - First installment of Barnaby Rudge in Master Humphrey’s Clock. Visits the U.S.A for six months. American Notes is published.
· 1843 - The Christmas Carol is published
· 1844-45 - Charles moves to Italy. The Chimes is published.
· 1846 - Becomes editor for Daily News for a month.
· 1847 - First sketches are published called Dombey and Son.
· 1849 - David Copperfield is published.
· 1850 - He edits a new magazine called Household Words.
· 1852 - The novel Bleak House is published.
· 1853 - Sketches of Hard Times appears in Household Words.
· 1856 - Little Dorrit also appears in Household Words.
· 1859 - Quits editing Household Words and start to edit his own magazine called All The Year Around.
· 1861 - Sketches of Great Expectations appears in All The Year Around and gives ...

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reporter, taking down the speeches of the Reform Bill. Charles was a political reporter in the Gallery of the House of Commons for about four years and kept his job at the True Sun for eight months. He reassigned for work at the Mirror of Parliament where he did reported all the speeches made in the House of Commons but he, again, left that job for a better one at the Morning Chronicle.
Dickens later started writing sketches that presented real people and incidents, under these sketches he signed them with his nick name "Boz". He met a publisher, John Macrone, who later published his sketches in two volumes. The first book-series was published on his birthday, February 7 in ...

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